Improvement in ploughs



GABRIEL UPLEKOF CHAPET: HILL. NORTH CAROLINA.

Lefters Patent No. 78,339, dated Jifay 26, 1888.

IMPROVEMENT IN PLOU GHS'Q digs fitlgrbnle rtfrtrthiu in ilZtSt itdtrts 33mm nut making not of flgt time.

TO-ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be itvknown that I, GABRIEL UrLEY, 6f Chapel Hill, in the county of Orange, and State of North Corolinu,

have invented a. new and useful Improvement in Ploughs; and I do hereby declare that the 'followi-ng'is'it'full, clear, and exelct description thereof, wl1ich will enable others skilled in the artto make and use thc'snme, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a. side view of my. improved plough, part being broken away, to show the constructioil. Figure '2 is a. detail sectional view of the same, taken through the linex x, fig, 1'.

Similar lettelrs of reference indie-etc like parts.

. My invention has for its object to furnish an improved plough, so Constructed and arranged that the mould- .board hind point may both be detached from theplouglrwhen desired, and so that the said parts may not he in the arm G running at right angles with the phrne of the land-side D of the plough, as shownin fig. 1

end, or by other convenient means.

weakened by having bolt-holes formed in them; and it consists in the construction of the mould-board and point, and of the parts by which they are secured to the-frame of the plough.

A is the plough-beam B 'are the handles; C is the standard; Dis the land-side;- E -is the mould-board, and F isthe poi nt I i I i The mould-hoard E is formed with a dove-tailed tongue, e, upon its lower side, fitting into a. (lore-toiled groove in the forwo-rd side of the :t-rm G, cast'solid upon the side o'tthe stalndard G, the tongue e and groove The 'point Fis also formed with a dove-tailed tongue, 6 upon its under side, fitting into a. dove-tailed groove in the forward side of the arm H, cast solid upon the side of thelower part of the standard Q's id tongue extending up in the rear of the lower part of the mould-board Efas shown in fig. 1, to whielfit is secured by a pin, 1, iassing through the said mould-hourd and through the upper'part'of the said tongue.

The pin I may be secured 'in place, and prevented from working out, by a key passed through its inner The dove-tailed tongue .of the pointF and the dove-tailed tongue'of the mould-board'E, run at right angles to each other, so that, when thessaid point and mould-boz trd-ure secured to eech other by-the pin Leech may bind the other in place.

, Having thus described toy invention, I claim :is new, and desire to securelb y Letters Patent:-

-1. Securing the mould-boaird E to the plough by means of the dove-tailed. tongue 0., formed upon its inner side, fitting into a dove-tailed groove formed in the forwardside of the arm G, cast solid upon he side of the I 1 standard 0 substantially as herein shownond described, andtfor the purpose set forth.

2. Securing the point F to the plough by. means of the dove-tailed'tongue b forxnedupon its underside, and fitting into' a. dove-tailed groove formed in the forward side of the erm H, cast solid upon the side of the lower part of the stalndard C, llbstantia lly as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

3, Connecting the mould-board E and point]? to each other by means of the hil, passing-through tlle lower part of the said mould-board'E, and through the extendedend of the tongue b',.suhstzi.ntially as herein shown nnd descrihed, and for the purpose-set forth, V i 4 4. Thecombination of the touguedpoint F, ton-good mould-bozrrd E,'groo vedarms HondG, andstandirrd] O, with each other, substantially as heroin shown'iand described, and-for the purpose set forth.

' GABRIEL TLsY.

Witnesses:

MATTHEW KING, CHAS. E. WATSON. 

